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Can Skin Salves Treat Tumors?
Posted on May 14, 2008
For centuries, corrosive pastes and plasters (sometimes called black salves or drawing salves) have been applied directly to skin tumors in the hope of burning them away, or rubbed into the skin over internal tumors in hopes of drawing out the cancer. Although dermatologists sometimes use a mixture of bloodroot and zinc chloride to remove skin cancers, (a treatment known as Mohs chemosurgery, after the doctor who invented the technique), none of the black salves or drawing salves sold today have ever been formally tested, and no scientific evidence supports claims that these products are s...
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